[HM] Black Apple on desktop

[J. Dobson]

Thanks Michael, I forgot about that. I did a Find too & this is what I found
(I have 2 of them for one thing)

  One on Desktop : (this) "Apple". It has 44K / 5 items. Created
11/27/00/modf'd 7/23/04 (which is when I first saw one of these)
  One on HD : Internet Search Sites : this "Apple". 32K/4 items. Created
11/27/00 modified 8/6/04 (which is what triggered this question to this
listserve.)

When I do a search for "Apple", I see that there's something called
Apple.src and AppleKBase.src in both, AppleTIL.src on desktop one and all
those icons look like books (?)

Now that I think of it, those MAY be the two times that I went to Apple's
site, however, when I just went on there again, no new "Apple" icon showed
up. Do they sometimes just AUTOMATICALLY drop a folder into your system??
Neither of these look like alias'. Can I toss one or the other or both?

Thanks for any answers
Jackie

From: "michaelP" <michael at sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>
Reply-To: "A place to discuss Macintosh Computers in the home."
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:41:15 +0000
To: "A place to discuss Macintosh Computers in the home."
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Subject: Re: [HM] Black Apple on desktop



>From: "J. Dobson" <j.dobson at earthlink.net>
>To: "A place to discuss Macintosh Computers in the home."
<homemac at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: [HM] Black Apple on desktop
>Date: Fri, Sep 17, 2004, 6:20 am
>

> This falls into the "where the heck did that come from?" and "what the heck
> is that?" category.
>
> A black Apple with the word "apple" beside it suddenly turned up on my
> desktop. I don't dare double click it, cause I've never seen it before and
> don't know where it came from since I haven't installed anything new in
> ions. It does have the bite out of it on the right like Apple's logo but it
> just put up some red flags.  Am I being paranoid?
> Can I/should I open this?
>
> Jackie
> G3 / OS9.2

Jackie, have you tried finding out what kind of beastie it is by doing
<SINGLE CLICK to select the icon> then <APPLE/COMMAND> +<I> to obtain
information about the file? It could just be a picture or a folder or just
an icon, needn't be an application... Do that first and do not double click
until you're sure what it is.

regards

michaelP
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